Longtime Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler died Thursday in Gulfport, Miss., according to WPMI. He was 69 years old.His death was confirmed by Fox WBRC, and through a statement from Stabler's family that said he died of colon cancer.

IRVING, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy had his suspension reduced from 10 games to four on appeal by arbitrator Harold Henderson, the NFL announced Friday.

The NFL initially suspended Hardy in April for what it deemed to be multiple violations of the league's personal conduct policy during an incident with a former girlfriend in the spring of 2014. The charges against Hardy were eventually dismissed after Nicole Holder refused to cooperate with the Mecklenburg (North Carolina) County district attorney's office.

I think this is a pretty good indication that we will at least see Brady's suspension cut down to 2 games.

EOCF wrote:I think this is a pretty good indication that we will at least see Brady's suspension cut down to 2 games.

It's a little ridiculous that it hasn't been announced yet. Balls deflated in January and six months later we still haven't heard the results of his appeal. Goodell knows what he's going to do. Just do it and get it over with.

EOCF wrote:I think this is a pretty good indication that we will at least see Brady's suspension cut down to 2 games.

It's a little ridiculous that it hasn't been announced yet. Balls deflated in January and six months later we still haven't heard the results of his appeal. Goodell knows what he's going to do. Just do it and get it over with.

marteezy wrote:So Tom Brady smashed his phone to a avoid turning it over as part of the investigation. So is it now safe to assume that he was involved. Or did he just find the perfect time to get clumsy.

The NFL was never going to see Brady's cellphone. He was under no obligation to turn it over to them.

They've moved from suspending him for probably being generally aware of the football pressure to suspending him for destroying his old phone.

NFL is upholding Brady's suspension. Not only did Brady elect to not turn over his phone for review, he had the phone destroyed. I'll switch sides now that that little tid bit is out.

Mr. Brady explained that when he changes cell phones, he gives his old cell phone to an assistant with the instruction "to destroy the phone so that no one can ever, you know, reset it or do something where the information is available to anyone." But this conflicts with the fact that the cell phone he had used prior to November 6, 2014 was, in fact, available for Mr. Maryman's review. Had Mr. Brady followed what he and his attorneys called his "ordinary practice," one would expect that the cell phone he had used prior to November 6, 2014 would have been destroyed long before Mr. Maryman was hired. No explanation was provided for this anomaly."

Though that only keeps you from accessing them from the device. Your cell phone carrier has all those text messages if they were to request them.

Also, I still believe Goodell should be hired for his handling of this. No way he didn't know how he was going to rule about this the day after the appeal.

R27 wrote:Though that only keeps you from accessing them from the device. Your cell phone carrier has all those text messages if they were to request them.

The NFL would need subpoena power to get those, which they don't have.

I'd love to know what they thought they'd find on his phone that they couldn't get from recipients of his texts who produced their phones to the league (ballboys, coaches, etc.).

I fully recognize how bad it smells when Brady destroyed his cell phone on the eve of his hearing with Ted Wells, but that alone isn't enough for this to hold up in court. I forget where I read it, but someone put it very well in saying that "the NFL's smoking gun in this case is that there isn't one."

edit: Looks like the Brady camp suggested something along the lines of what I said earlier, in a footnote on Page 12:

"After the hearing and after the submission of post-hearing briefs, Mr Brady's certificed agents offered to provide a spreadsheet that would identify all of the individuals with hom Mr. Brady had exchanged text messages during that period; the agents suggested that the league could contact those individuals and request production of any relevant text messages that they retained."

The NFL argued that that approach was not practical.

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R27 wrote:Though that only keeps you from accessing them from the device. Your cell phone carrier has all those text messages if they were to request them.

The NFL would need subpoena power to get those, which they don't have.

I'd love to know what they thought they'd find on his phone that they couldn't get from recipients of his texts who produced their phones to the league (ballboys, coaches, etc.).

Obviously Brady would have to request them for the NFL. And could have redacted what he didn't want shared. I'm with you that he didn't need to produce his phone, but the lengths it appears to went to to not share his phone with the NFL is way, way, way fishy.

marteezy wrote:It'll be interesting if the NFLPA and Bray choose to take this to a federal court for an overturn. If they do, his carrier will then likely be subpoenaed to turnover the data.

The NFL is a step ahead of you and has asked a district court to confirm the suspension. Not giving Brady and the NFLPA a chance to appeal first.

R27 wrote:Obviously Brady would have to request them for the NFL. And could have redacted what he didn't want shared. I'm with you that he didn't need to produce his phone, but the lengths it appears to went to to not share his phone with the NFL is way, way, way fishy.

If he redacts any portion of those logs, whether because they're irrelevant, personal, or damning, wouldn't that allow Goodell to basically rule the same thing? Any redaction potentially means he didn't turn everything over/cooperate fully.

The former Secretary of State criminally wipes out thousands of Public Records embedded within 50,000 emails from her server & gets rewarded with the Democratic frontrunner title for Nomination for President of the United States.

We sure have our priorities straight & our societal parity protocols at a high level of integrity - don't we ................ ??